CALYPSO - FRENCH - 1942

Calypso is a former British Royal Navy Minesweeper converted into a research
vessel for the oceanography researcher Jacques-Yves Cousteau, equipped with
a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged
in 1996, and is undergoing a complete refurbishment in 2009. The ship is
named after the Greek mythological figure Calypso. Calypso was originally
a wooden-hulled minesweeper built for the British Royal Navy by the Ballard
Marine Railway Company of Seattle, Washington, USA. She was made from Oregon
pine.